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The Great Learning

January 8, 2013
By wind_andthe_rainy PLATINUM, San Francisco, California
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Heart opens and
Inside, stacked neatly are
Two boxes

Open the blue one
Tumbling out
Comes the knowledge
Little raindrops
Of learning
Each a new discovery
A new investigation
A new discovery

Lift the flap
Red cube now
Smells of sincerity
Fill the heart
The thoughts cover
The furniture
Like dust after a long neglect

The heart is warm
Full of fertilizer
The crops are cultivated
The life-box has reached it's tranquil repose
With each bumbum
It pulses through
Calm buzzes
And energized
Bumbum
bumbum

© Simon E., Bethesda, MD

The author's comments:
This is a poem I wrote about The Great Learning by Confucius. It represents his concepts with a lot of imagery.
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